“Nightfall” by Nancy Smith

???   The sun is dead. They say the world will go completely dark in eight days. We believe them because the sky has gradually dimmed over the past few months. At first we didn’t really notice. Then, slowly, it was perceptible. Some of us went to the doctor to...

“Glimpse” by Melissa Campbell

??? Her husband Eliot had disappeared amongst the other party guests. Kate excused herself from the circle of women she was chatting with to reapply her lip gloss. On her way back, she caught sight of Eliot and a young woman standing at the French doors that led out...

“Dementia, 1692” by Sadie Hoagland

???   We heard my mother scream just before daylight. The house was bathed in a blue pre-sunlight and the color was the very sound of her wails. She had been trying to sit up with my younger sister but had fallen asleep and when she woke my sister was cold, her...

Motherhood as Existence in All We Can Hold (collection)

All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood, edited by Elise Gregory, Emily Gwinn, Kaleen McCandless, Kate Maude, and Laura Walker   All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood Editors: Elise Gregory, Emily Gwinn, Kaleen McCandless, Kate Maude, and Laura Walker Sage Hill...

Trading Insults for Healing in “The Dozen” by Casey Rocheteau

Review: The Dozen by Casey Rocheteau   The Dozen Author: Casey Rocheteau Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-943977-10-9 $16.95 Five books in my lifetime have made me throw them across the room while still reading them: Jericho Brown’s Please, Junot Diaz’s...